Oral Anglais

Places and Forms of power

I'm going to talk about the notion of Places and forms of power. To introduce this notion, I would like to give a definition of this concept : Places could be important buildings or institutions that represent a certain form of power, for example Buckingham Palace, a symbol of the British monarchy,or the White House, a symbol of the American presidency.

A place can also be a country or a state, for example the USA is a state which is powerful enough to influence events throughout the world and China is a major economic power in today’s world.

The power is the ability to control others, events, or resources; the ability to make things happen despite obstacles, resistance, or opposition. This of course leads to conflict between those who have power and those who don’t.

Thus, How can people from different cultures live together in harmony ?

To try to answer this question, we are going to be interested in the case of South Africa, which knew a very long period of cultural and power conflicts.Then, we shall be interested in an iconic figure of the History of South Africa: mister Nelson Mandela. Finally, we shall see how South Africa reached the status of nation rainbow, among others thanks to this great man.

After the Second World War, In 1948, A politic of racial segregation is established, called the Apatheid, when the national Party, dominated by conservatives Afrikaners, takes the power. It called for the segregation of races all over the country. Blacks with Blacks, Whites with Whites. Residential areas were segregated and this lead to the forced removals of blacks from their homes. About 3 and a half million people were re-located. From 1950, the Group Area Act, who divides the racial communities and relegates the black population in a tiny part of the country, comes into effect, the blacks were deprived of their citizenship and became citizens of one of ten self governing tribal based groups, like Lebowa, Venda, KwaZu

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